http://www.startribune.com/local/east/89307862.html By Kevin Diaz Star Tribune March 27, 2010 WASHINGTON -- A Minnesota company that processes loans for students nationwide has reported a major theft of "personally identifiable information" involving 3.3 million students after a break-in last weekend at its Oakdale headquarters. U.S. Department of Education officials said it is believed to be one of the biggest cases of student identity theft in the nation, affecting 5 percent of all students with federal loans in the United States. ECMC, founded 16 years ago as Educational Credit Management Corp., said Friday that the stolen data include names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. No bank account or other financial information was included in the data. In an e-mail Friday to several members of Congress that was obtained by the Star Tribune, company chief executive Richard Boyle said the theft occurred from a "secured location at ECMC involving portable media with ECMC student loan borrowers' personally identifiable information." According to Boyle, the company is "not aware of any instance of this data being misused." [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Fri Mar 26 2010 - 23:21:36 PDT
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